We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
VLADIMIR LENINHe who does not work shall not eat.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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